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Celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day

Augur — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:59:00 +0000

Ahoy mates, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

T’ help you sail through t’ day, your buckos at Urbanagora wanted t’ link t’ some booty. Click here. And here. Garrrrr, here be an English t’ Pirate translator. And, here be a funny picture o’ a pirate keyboard (from Engadget)

Editors Note: This is reposted from a previous Talk Like A Pirate Day

IP Oppression: Facebook asked to remove "Scrabulous"

Augur — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:47:00 +0000

Many of our bloggers and readers are addicted to Scrabulous. This morning I received an email from a dear friend, subject line “Oh noes!!! Scrabulous is in trouble!” Evidentally, Mattel has asked Facebook to remove the Scrabulous application.

From my reading of the CNET article linked above, it seems like their biggest objection is infringing on their trademark for scrabble, not the gameplay itself. If that’s the case, could Scrabulous just name it anything that isn’t trademarked, and continue offering a free version of Scrabble? I took like 8 constitutional law courses in law school instead of taking something practical that would illuminate this discussion. Does anyone out there in the Agora know if I’m going to have to get back to billing hours instead of playing Scrabble on Facebook?

Update: Also check out the story at my favorite law blog Above the Law.

If you want to sing out

Augur — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:31:00 +0000

I love this Cat Steven’s song. Even on particularly rough days listening to this reminds me how magical life is.

Did Brian commission this study?

Jon Monteith — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:39:00 +0000

This just in from The Onion–and by “this just in,” I mean it ran a little over a month ago but I assumed that many of you haven’t seen it–Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion.

It’s a shame this hadn’t been released at the time of the infamous Fox Lake thread. Point for Brian.

What’s Your Score?

Tom Trumpinski — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:30:00 +0000

kitten sent me a list taken from the webpage below. Out of curiosity, I went down the list and kept track of the number of words for which I didn’t know the definition.

List of 100

There were four–abstemious, inculcate, moiety and obsequious.

How about you? Are lawyers or scientists more literate than the average person on the street?